Quotes by Community While in some cases the damage already done may well be irreversible, in many other cases it can still be halted. It is necessary, however, that the entire human community - individuals, States and international bodies - take seriously the responsibility that is theirs. Pope John Paul II environmentalcommunityresponsibility The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the living faith of the Christian community - a faith always aware of its rights vis-a-vis those who do not share the faith - ensures respect for this sacredness Pope John Paul II communityrightschristian We came together [with King Hussein of Jordan] because of a shared sense of idealism, of the value of service to a community far greater than ourselves, and the conviction that each and everyone of us can meaningfully contribute to solving even the most seemingly intractable problems. Queen Noor of Jordan communitykingstogether This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community. Queen Elizabeth II communityweaponsscience The family is a community of love where each of us learns to relate to others and to the world around us. Pope Francis relatecommunityworld We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel! Pope Francis communitywaitingpeople When we understand that we are a human race, what affects you affects me, what affects her affects you and so on and so on, then we'll look at this thing [HIV/AIDS] for what it really is. It's a disease that's out to kill all of us. What will make it continue is our prejudices, our ideas about it, and the fact that we don't look at ourselves as one giant community. Queen Latifah communityraceideas The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God. Pope Francis communitysoulpeople Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels. Quentin Tarantino goebbelsgermanycommunity Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material. Rachel Cusk blackcommunitythinking Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows. Rachel Carson communitylandwater The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation will offer individual believers and communities a fitting opportunity to reaffirm their personal vocation to be stewards of creation, to thank God for the wonderful handiwork which he has entrusted to our care, and to implore his help for the protection of creation, as well as his pardon for the sins committed against the world in which we live. Pope Francis communityprayeropportunity I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church. Rachel Held Evans communitychurchchristian The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof. Rachel Carson communitywatermean It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community Pope Francis communitychurchimportant Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering. Rachel Naomi Remen communitychildrenpeople A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely, this was enough. But a prayer is about our relationship to God; a blessing is about our relationship to the spark of God in one another. God may not need our attention as badly as the person next to us on the bus or behind us in line in the supermarket. Everyone in the world matters, and so do their blessings. When we bless others, we offer them refuge from an indifferent world. Rachel Naomi Remen communityprayerblessing My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world. Rachel Kushner communityworldart I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline. Pope Francis disciplinecommunityjesus The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community. Radhika Coomaraswamy communityrightstogether«142143144145146147148149150151152»
